I couldn't believe this when I read it. The NY Times is reporting on a new cottage industry out of China, the outsourcing of video game playing! Fuck Shit Fuck Shit! I've heard of people trading codes and files over message boards, forums and even eBay for games to get certain things, but China's fully commercialized it. Fucking lazy fucks who can't get good enough at a game so they have to pay other people to beat a level for them? Who are these lazy fucks and where are they getting the excess money to spend on an excess expense of video games?
When I was growing up, I grew up on 4-bit Atari then leapfrogged to 8-bit Nintendo. Then came 16-bit Super Nintendo and I think Sega Genesis was also 16-bit. Turbo Grafix was somewhere along the time of SNES and Genesis at 32-bit, I think. And of course Sega Saturn came along with Nintendo64 for the next levels of gaming. And then Sony got in the game with PlayStation and now Mircosoft and their $500M lbs. gorilla XBox.
I loved those dinky games of yore and I even bought an 8-bit NES in college so I could play games like Punch-Out [didn't find Mike Tyson's when I bought the NES, remember they dropped him after the rape charges?], Dr. Mario [I'm the fucking king of Dr. Mario, all challengers are welcome to kiss my ass] and various editions of Mario Bros. - and it's pronounced Mah-rio not Mau-rio dammit. When things got complicated, I did what we all did, stayed up until 4a figuring the shit out. Eventually, things got really complicated and cheat books were made. I must admit, that since buying Sony PS2 several years ago, I've bought my fare share of cheat books, but I haven't PAID SOMEONE to do the work for me! Good god. What is this world coming to.
It takes me many playing hours to go through games like Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy X, but I love it. I'm a vido game geek on a lower level, but a video game geek nevertheless. So who wants to pay me to beat Final Fantasy X2 whent it comes out and then give them the memory card with the final sequence on it so you can show your friends the ending sequence and claim it was "All me"? Pony up, bitches.
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